About me

I'm a writer, hoping to get published. I write poetry (here's my blog where you can read my poems: http://www.flyingdreampoet.blogspot.com ) and fiction novels. As of this date (April 2011) I have written two novels, both sci-fi, and I am now working on the first draft of a third novel, which I think is going to be the first in a series, and it is not so much sci-fi as it is a weird-ass mix of several genres including drama, thriller and sci-fi and possibly comedy.
My family has an internet business - a website that sells women's clothes: http://www.modestclothingdistributors.com
I am unemployed (except as a babysitter, so I get a job every few months or so) but I hope to get my books published and get rich. What will I do with the money I make? Well, my dream is to move to Hawaii. That's what I'm working towards right now.

Posted : 6 years, 10 months ago on 11 April 2011 04:01
(A review of The Great Escape)

You'll laugh, you'll cry, this movie will stick with you. What more can be said about a classic movie?
The Great Escape is funny and serious in good proportion. It has definitely aged well, being just as interesting, entertaining and relevant to modern audiences as it was the year it was released. I firmly believe that everyone should see this movie. Everyone.

Death Note is universally appealing. It has some kind of magic that digs in and holds fast to the heart of anyone watching. It is obviously well-written; the plot is solid, the suspense sublime, and the characters? Best Characters in Any Work of Fiction Anywhere Ever.
But even all these elements combined don't account for Death Note's magnitude of charm. Its whole is greater than the sum of its parts, great as that sum already was.
For a friend who just couldn't get into anime, I recommended Death Note. It's impossible not to get sucked in by the masterful writing, airtight characterization, and that indefinable something extra: that magic spell Death Note casts on its viewers.

The Decemberists have always been able to tell a good story. The story in The Hazards of Love, is, in my opinion, worthy of a movie or stage adaptation. It's interesting, gripping, at places terrifying, yet simple and rooted in the oldest traditions of story-telling. Without giving too much away, I'd like to mention that the song "The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)" is the most genius use of dissonance to create a mood of haunting terror that I have ever encountered outside an actual horror movie.